Some thoughts about eclogites and related rocks

Brown, Michael

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-523-2023

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(Ultra)high-pressure metamorphism, from crystal to orogenic...

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Some thoughts about eclogites and related rocks

Michael Brown

Data sets

Global age, temperature and pressure data for secular change in metamorphism M. Brown and T. Johnson https://doi.org/10.1594/IEDA/111316

Short summary

The past 40 years have been a golden age for eclogite studies, supported by an ever wider range of instrumentation and enhanced computational capabilities, linked with ongoing developments in the determination of the temperatures and pressures of metamorphism and the age of these rocks. These data have been used to investigate the spatiotemporal distribution of metamorphism and secular change but not without controversy in relation to the emergence of plate tectonics on Earth.